Spain Hackers Sabotage Museum Site

MADRID, Spain (AP) - Computer hackers supporting the armed Basque separatist
group ETA sabotaged the Web page of the Guggenheim Museum in the Basque city of
Bilbao over the weekend, a museum official said Monday. The culprits tampered
with the site Sunday so that it showed slogans praising ETA and its goal of
independence for the Basque country, an area straddling the border between
northern Spain and southwest France, said spokeswoman Neria Abasolo. The site
was disrupted for a few hours, she added. Photographs of imprisoned ETA members
accompanied statements written in English calling France and Spain oppressors.
ETA is blamed for the deaths of nearly 800 people in its more than 30-year
struggle for independence. The group called a cease-fire in Sept. 1998, raising
hopes for an end to the conflict, but ended the truce in January of this year,
expressing frustration with the pace of the peace process. The group has claimed
responsibility for two car bombings this year which killed three people, and
been blamed for another that injured seven.

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